One-on-one lifestyle coaching for managing adolescent obesity: Findings from a pilot, randomized controlled trial in a real-world, clinical setting.

Background: Interventions for obese adolescents in real-world, clinical settings need to be evaluated because most weight management care occurs in this context.

Objectives: To determine whether a lifestyle intervention that includes motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy (Health Initiatives Program [HIP]) leads to weight management that is superior to a similar lifestyle intervention (Youth Lifestyle Program [YLP]) that does not include these techniques; and to determine whether the HIP and YLP interventions are superior to a wait list control (WLC) group.

Methods: Obese adolescents were randomly assigned to a YLP (n=15), HIP (n=17) or WLC (n=14) group.

Taking stock of current societal, political and academic stakeholders in the Canadian healthcare knowledge translation agenda.

Background: In the past 15 years, knowledge translation in healthcare has emerged as a multifaceted and complex agenda. Theoretical and polemical discussions, the development of a science to study and measure the effects of translating research evidence into healthcare, and the role of key stakeholders including academe, healthcare decision-makers, the public, and government funding bodies have brought scholarly, organizational, social, and political dimensions to the agenda.

Objective: This paper discusses the current knowledge translation agenda in Canadian healthcare and how elements in this agenda shape the discovery and translation of health knowledge.

Eating disorders: identification and treatment in obstetrical patients.

Eating disorders are well defined in females ages 14 to 24, and consist primarily of anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). Collectively, these two eating disorders are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behaviors and acute distress over body shape and weight. In AN, fear of weight gain coupled with a distorted body image leads to refusal to maintain a minimally accepted body weight (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1994).

Health researchers in Alberta: an exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities.

Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers are trained and supported to facilitate knowledge translation activities. In this study, we investigated differences in health researcher characteristics and knowledge translation activities.

Internet-based innovations for the prevention of eating disorders: a systematic review.

The objective of this systematic review was to compare the results of studies of Internet-based eating disorder prevention programs. Eight electronic bibliographic databases, three key journals, and study reference lists were searched. This method yielded five published studies: four experimental and one quasi-experimental.

Treating vulnerable populations: the case of eating disorders during pregnancy.

While eating disorders are a prevalent psychiatric issue for women, only a moderate amount of literature discussing the implications for pregnancy exists and even less explores how to identify and manage eating disorders in this patient population. This is despite known risks for adverse fetal, birth, and maternal outcomes because of these disorders. To enhance standard assessment practice and facilitate early intervention for the eating disordered patient, a general obstetrics role need not dramatically change to improve outcomes for mother and child.